The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt (book review)
Get your copy here! Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior center [...]
The Reluctant Fortune-Teller by Keziah Frost (book review)
Get your copy here! Norbert Zelenka has always lived life on the sidelines. It's how at seventy-three years old he finds himself broke and alone except for the company of a Chihuahua. But when Carlotta's Club--three strong-willed seniors with a flair for drama and plenty of time on their hands--decide [...]
Exes Don’t by Leah Dobrinska (book review)
Get your copy here! Rose Kasper has a secret. A big one. She’s a spy. Okay…not exactly. She works as an undercover security specialist. For a decade, she’s used dry humor, deflection, and self-deprecation to keep herself distanced from her sisters and friends in order to hide her double life. [...]
Where You Belong by M.K. Smith and Lori Freeland (book review)
Get your copy here! A girl can run from her roots, but she can't escape her heart. Six years ago, after a practical joke gone wrong, Hendrix Marshall blew the single stoplight in the town of Runaway, Wisconsin, and never looked back. But when Grandpa Joe--retired hippie, Jimmy Hendrix devotee, [...]
Reading Recommendations from Kristen Terrette
What was your favorite picture book as a kid? I Love You, Forever by Robert Munsch What was the first “real” book (with chapters and without pictures) you remember reading? Goodness, this is hard! I think it would be Black Beauty (Sewell), but I also remember loving Matilda (Dahl) and [...]